Note: I don't own Power Rangers, if I did, this would not be in a written format. I may have a bias, but I would watch this if it was real!

(Future Spidey here for one of the few last times. This chapter has REALLY bugged me, especially after xxRocketShark216xx gave his very valid and accurate review. This chapter was a mess and it's one I plan to clean up. As such, this chapter will have one of the biggest changes out of all of the chapters. The ideas will be very similar, but things will hopefully be better after this rewrite. All that being said, I want to thank Rocket for giving his honest opinion and the basis (somewhat) of how I plan to fix it. And thank you everyone else for your understanding!)

Here is the long awaited chapter 6. I say "long awaited" but I'm only a week later than I meant to be. Writer's block can be a real pain! Here we go...

Myth 6: The Tangled Web We Weave!

The cool gusts of September had become the brisk winds of October, and Merrida 'Mera' Cadwalader was definitely feeling the difference as she walked through the library to the study rooms before reaching 'O'.

"Guys?" Mera asked as she stepped into the Temple. "Where have you been?"

Jay looked away from the file he was reading on the mosaic computer,

"Just been studying up on my Greek Myths. I thought it could be useful if we run into any of these monsters," he explained.

Victor didn't even look up from the sword he was forging on the anvil while he hammered the blade flat.

Nate gave out a cry before falling to the ground. Valerie had just kicked him a few yards from their current location of the training mats. Valerie helped pull the prone boy up, and the two walked over to Mera.

"What's up?" Nate asked nonchalantly.

"What is up is that you guys missed studying," Mera said. "The test is on Friday, remember?"

"Test?" Jay asked as he joined the group. "What test?"

"The Calculus test!" Mera shouted. "The one that basically decides the first marking period grade!"

Valerie just heaved a sigh of relief.

"So glad I don't have Calc this year!" she said.

"Crap!" Jay yelled as he ran for his school bag while Nate looked unaffected

"Whatever," he said. "I'm not really worried, I'll just wing it."

"'Winging it' is not a strategy!" Mera argued.

"What do you mean it's not a strategy?" Nate retorted.

"OK, OK," Valerie said as she stood between the two. "You two are acting like children."

"I thought Hermes would be here," Mera noted as she changed the subject. "Where is he?"

"He's off in the Zord bay," Victor said as he put down the hammer and took off the mask, "and I'm going to go join him." He walked away nervously to one of the many entryways before entering the next room over.

Jay and Mera both grabbed one of Nate's arms each away from the Temple and back to the library.

"But I don't need to study!" Nate shouted as he struggled. "Valerie, back me up here!"

"I'm kind of with them," Valerie responded. "I think it will be helpful for you."

"I've been betrayed!" Nate cried before the other two teens pulled him into the actual study room.

"Let's use this room for it's actual purpose," Mera remarked as she opened up her bag. "Now let's talk about sine, cosine and tangent."

"You'll go off on a tangent alright," Nate grumbled before pulling out his notes.


It had been a few hours, and the school and library were about to close.

"I think that does it for today," Mera said before putting away her notes. "We should meet tomorrow after school. I have Bio on the other side of the school, so I might be late. Jay, I can trust you to work with Nate until then?"

"Not a problem," Jay said.

"Fine…" Nate begrudgingly agreed. "I guess we can…if we must."

"Alright, I'll see you guys tomorrow," Mera said as she left the room after Jay, with Nate right behind her.

They all walked out of the school and went their separate ways.


"I've got it!" Hades shouted, "I know how to defeat the Rangers!"

"How will you accomplish this, my lord?" Persephone asked.

"Divided an enemy falls! I need to divide the Rangers against each other!" Hades cackled. "And I'll start with the Red and Yellow Ranger. Once they're turned against each other, the others will be easy to manipulate."

"And how will you manage to turn the Red and Yellow Ranger against each other?" Persephone asked.

"If I can attack the Yellow Ranger and misdirect the Red Ranger from helping her until it's too late, I might be able to turn them against each other! I just need a monster to do it!"

He placed his hand in the brazier and created a blue-flamed ball before throwing it at the wall to create a portal.

"I summon the stealthy and crafty Arachne to aid me!" Hades shouted as a large black spider-like creature was summoned. It had black hair over it's entire body, six arms and two legs (giving it eight limbs) and eight red eyes on its face above its large mandibles.

"How may I serve you, master Hades?" she said as she bowed down on one knee.

"I need you to make sure the Red Ranger and Yellow Ranger don't meet up," Hades ordered. "Do what you have to to make it happen."

"As you command," Arachne said as she stepped through the new portal that Hades created.

As the portal closed, a black mist was created next to it. Out of the mist stepped Gryphon.

"My lord, you should let me fight the Red Ranger! You know how much I wish to see him destroyed!" Gryphon said.

"I want to turn the Rangers against each other, not destroy them," Hades said. "When I need a Ranger killed, I will be sure to let you know."

"As you wish," Gryphon grumbled before disappearing into his signature black smoke.


"Hey! Jay!" a black-haired student shouted as she ran towards the teen. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Sure," Jay said. "How can I help?"

"I'm in one of Woolston's classes and she's collecting this crazy huge paper tomorrow."

"Strange, she's not doing that in my class," Jay commented.

"I'm in AP," the girl clarified. "The point is, I need help printing that paper. I've been to the Computer Lab, but I can't get it to print."

"I may not be the best guy to ask-" Jay started before the girl interrupted him.

"I've just heard how you've helped so many people and I was hoping you could help me. But if you're too busy…" the girl said as she looked down.

"I guess I have a few minutes," Jay said. "Why don't we head to the Computer Lab and we'll see what I can do?"

"I'm going to run to the restroom real quick," the girl said, "but you go on to the Computer Lab. I'll be there in a couple."

"Sure," Jay said as he turned towards the Computer Lab and started walking.

"Thanks, Jay!" the girl said as her eyes turned red for a minute. "You're a lifesaver!"


Mera opened the door and stepped out of the Bio lab. Instead of walking through the building, she decided to walk outside around the school to the library. She opened the door to the outside and found a dozen Spartoi standing in front of him.

"Ah, Hades must be up to something," she remarked as she strapped on her morphers. "It would be best for me to morph to-"

Just as she was about to activate the morphers, a shot of webbing splattered on her wrists, coating them.

"What is this?" Mera asked as she pulled at it a little bit. "Some sort of organic webbing?"

"Point one to the Yellow Ranger," Arachne said as she stepped out from behind the Spartoi. "But it doesn't matter. You won't be getting it off anytime soon!"

Mera reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone. She pressed a few keys as the Spartoi and Arachne started moving towards her before quickly putting it away.

"Well, I suppose hand to hand unmorphed will have to do," Mera commented as she threw a punch at a Spartoi. As soon as she connected with the Spartoi's head, she recoiled a bit.

"Those craniums are more solid than I remembered," she said as she clutched her hand.

Not wanting to give up the offensive, she lashed out with a kick. This attack had much more of an impact, causing the Spartoi to tumble down the hill the Bio Lab was on top of. Mera moved to kick again when Arachne intercepted her attack, catching it with one of her six arms. In one solid move, she hurled Mera by the foot into the air. Mera cried out as she flipped a few times before landing on her stomach. She let out a groan as she tried to get up.

"You've got spunk to keep moving after that kind of attack," Arachne said. "I almost feel bad doing this to you. Almost."

She opened her mandibles and spewed out strand after strand of webbing onto Mera. After a minute, Mera was wrapped in a web cocoon.

"You aren't getting out of that any time soon," Arachne said before rolling the cocoon forward. "Happy landings!"

Mera cried out as the cocoon was affected by the forces of gravity and started to roll down the hill with her in it.

A portal opened behind the spider-monsters and she turned around to step through it. Hades was waiting, grin on his face.

"Now we wait," he said.


15 minutes later

"I have no idea what was up with that girl," Jay said as he walked into the library, "I go into the Computer Lab and not only are none of the computers logged into Word or Docs, they're not on at all! And she didn't even come back!" He sighed a bit as he opened the door to Study Room O. "What a waste of time. I don't mind helping people out but..."

He stopped when he noticed the room was empty.

Mera should have been here by now, Jay thought. The Bio Lab is only about 5 minutes from the library. I hope nothing happened.

He pulled out his morphers and strapped them to his wrists before activating them.

"Has anyone seen Mera?" he asked into one of the morphers. "She's not in the Study Room like she should be."

"I haven't heard from her," Valerie's voice said through the morpher. "But it isn't like her to not show up, unlike somebody I know."

"I heard that!" Nate's voice shouted in the background.

"I'm going to try and find her," Jay said. "Hopefully Hades doesn't have anything to do with it."


5 Minutes later

"Where is he?" Mera asked out loud as the cocoon laid there on the ground. "Jay should have noticed I was missing at least 15 minutes ago!"

"Mera!" Jay's voice called out, "Mera! Where are you?"

"Right here!" Mera shouted as she tried to shimmy the cocoon so her face was at least facing upwards. "Jay! Over here!"

She heard footsteps and Jay's face entered her vision.

"What happened to you?" he asked

"I was assaulted by an enlarged arachnoid," she said. She then noticed Jay's confused face before simplifying. "A giant spider attacked me."

"Hold on," Jay said, "I'll get you out of there in a minute. Red Olympian Power!"

In a flash of red light, Jay was morphed into the Red Olympian Ranger. He summoned his Lightning Sword and started to gently slice around the webbing.

"Let me know if I touch you with the sword," he said as he continued his slow but steady cutting.

After a few minutes, Mera was free. Her morphers had been freed from the webbing surrounding it as well.

"Thank you," she said as Jay demorphed. "The spider-monster just appeared along with some Spartoi. Next thing I knew, she had encased me and rolled me down the hill."

"Yeah, I came as soon as I could," Jay said.

"That reminds me," Mera asked, a little annoyed. "Where were you?"

"This weird girl asked for my help and I-" Jay said before Mera interrupted him.

"So instead of helping your best friend fight a monster, you decided to help a stranger?" Mera asked.

"You know I like to help people," Jay said, "I can't help it. Besides, how was I supposed to know you were being attacked?"

"I sent a text!" Mera shouted as she pulled out her phone and showed it to Jay. Indeed, on the screen was MONSTER ATTACK! HELP! from Mera and no response from Jay.

"I didn't get that!" Jay said. "But if I had, I would have been right over!"

"No, instead you were helping your new friend," Mera said. "I was in a life-or-death situation and you were helping someone you barely know instead! I refuse to be second choice!"

"Mera, there's more to the st-" Jay said before Mera cut him off.

"You have said enough," she said before turning and walking away.

Jay let out a sigh as the redhead continued to walk away.


From one library to another, Mera thought dryly as the bus pulled up at the public library. As the doors opened, she stepped off and pushed open the door to the library.

As she passed shelves and shelves of books, her anger began to weaken a little. Soon, she had reached the Greek Mythology section. Mera pulled a book off the shelf and walked over to a table. As she opened the book, the pages flipped to an image of a statue of Athena, tall and proud. Mera looked at the image and sighed.

"Ah, Athena," a female voice said behind Mera. "Always my favorite goddess.". The redhead jumped a little and looked behind her to see a woman, most likely in her late-20s or early-30s, with short brown hair and glasses that covered her striking grey eyes.

"Can I help you?" Mera asked politely.

"No, but I may be able to help you," the woman said as she sat down across from Mera. "I've seen you here before. Normally you just look determined. But now? Now you just seem sad. What happened?"

"Is it really any of your business?" Mera asked.

"Sometimes the best way to deal with something is to talk about it," the woman said. "That being said, I can't make you tell me."

Mera let out another sigh.

"I had a friend let me down," Mera said. "I trusted them to have my back and they did not aid me when I needed them most."

"I'm sure they had a good reason," the woman said. "And while they may have let you down now, I'm sure they've helped you out before. Just look to the past for answers when the present doesn't help you." With that, she stood up.

"And remember," she said, "the bonds of friendship are stronger than you think. True friends will find a way to come back together no matter the odds."

With that, she walked away from the table and disappeared behind a shelf.

Mera frowned for a minute as she thought over the woman's words.

Look to the past? she thought. I suppose it could prove beneficial.

So she thought back to the past. Her and Jay's past.

Flashback

"'ey! Give it back!" a younger Mera said in a much stronger accent. Two boys were tossing her bag into the air over her head. A crowd had gathered, but nobody was helping her out.

"Come on, wise girl," one of the boys said, "you should be able to stop us if you're so smart."

"Yeah!" the other boy said, "you think you're so much better than us, so prove it!"

"I never said I was better than 'ou" she said, "now give me back me bag!"

"You heard her," a young voice said, "knock it off."

A younger Jay stepped out of the crowd. He walked over to one of the boys and put out his hand.

"Give it here," he said simply. The boy looked at him for a moment and then burst out laughing.

"What are you going to do? Call in your Power Ranger friends?" he laughed as he ridiculed the young student.

"I don't need a Power Ranger to stop you," Jay said as he got into a fighting stance. The other boy smirked as he got into a fighting stance as well.

"Teacher!" a student in the crowd yelled before said crowd dispersed. The boys threw the bag at Jay's feet and ran away. Jay picked up the bag and handed it back to Mera.

"Here you go!" Jay said with a smile.

"Thanks," Mera said. She grabbed the bag and started to walk away.

"What's your name?" Jay asked, still grinning.

"Merrida," Mera answered over her shoulder.

"I'm Jason, but you can just call me Jay," Jay said, "Merrida's a kind of hard name to say. There's this character in a comic book named Mera. Can I call you that?"

Mera turned around and walked back to the boy.

"Sure, but why are 'ou being nice to me?" she asked. "No one has been really nice to me since I got here."

"Because it's the right thing to do," Jay answered simply, "and I believe in always doing the right thing, especially for my friends."

"Is that what we are now, friends?" Mera asked.

"We can if you want to be," Jay answered.

"Sure," Mera said, "now, can 'ou tell me what a Power Ranger is?"

"Can I?" Jay said as the two walked back into the school, "you bet I can!"

End Flashback

Maybe I overreacted a little, Mera thought. Jay helped me then and I was so grateful. He was just doing that for that girl. I should not get upset just because Jay is helping someone else. I need to find him and apologize.

With that, she stood up and put the book back before exiting the library. As she was about to activate her morpher to get a Door, she began to hear screams. As Mera ran around the corner towards the source of the noise, she saw Arachne attacking the street with a group of Spartoi.

"I need help over by the library," Mera said quickly into her morpher before running up near the spider-monster. "Halt!"

"So you got out of your cocoon," Arachne said. "I'm sure you and the Red Ranger had plenty of fun with that."

"That webbing was irritating, to say the least," Mera said. "But not as irritating as I will be to you."

"Make that all of us!" Jay's voice shouted as he and the other Rangers ran over to line up alongside Mera. "Are you alright?"

"I am fine," Mera said, "but I wanted to apologize. I overreacted about you helping out that girl. You helping people is one of your best qualities and I should not have blamed you for not helping me, especially because you were unaware of what was happening."

"It's fine," Jay said. "I should have checked my phone. I found the text you sent later. Turns out my phone was on silent. I just didn't expect Hades to attack right after school…"

"Neither did I," Mera said, "but now we have a monster to defeat together. I trust you to have my back."

"And I trust you to have mine," Jay said as he put out a hand. "Mera, do you want to take the lead?"

"My pleasure," Mera said as the Rangers activated their morphers, "it's Morphing Time!"

"Pink Olympian Power!"

"Yellow Olympian Power!"

"Black Olympian Power!"

"Blue Olympian Power!"

"Red Olympian Power!"

In a flash of light, the teenagers were replaced by their morphed forms. They then began their role call.

"Aphrodite, goddess of love! Pink Olympian Ranger!"

"Athena, goddess of wisdom! Yellow Olympian Ranger!"

"Hephaestus, god of the forge! Black Olympian Ranger!"

"Poseidon, god of the sea! Blue Olympian Ranger!"

"Zeus, god of lightning! Red Olympian Ranger!"

"Using the powers of the past to protect the future! Power Rangers Olympian Force!"

"Let's summon our weapons and get in there!" Jay ordered as the Rangers put out their hands to summon their weapons.

"Love Bow!"

"Battle Spear!"

"Blacksmith Hammer!"

"Ocean Trident!"

"Lightning Sword!"

With a cry, the Rangers charged into the fray. As the other three Rangers dispersed to deal with the random Spartoi, Jay and Mera ran towards Arachne, knocking aside Spartoi in the way.

"'Scuse me, coming through!" Jay joked as he slammed aside a Spartoi with the flat of his blade before spreading his arms. "Hey, Mera! Need a boost?"

"Sure!" she answered before leaping onto Jay's shoulders and launching herself off of them. She flipped in the air and jabbed Arachne with her spear. Arachne cried out in pain as the point was driven into her side. Mera pulled it out and rolled out of the way just as Jay slashed Arachne with his red glowing blade. Mera drew back her spear until it began to glow yellow, and she jabbed it straight through the monster. Arachne cried out in pain again as sparks flew around her. All of the Spartoi lay across the battlefield in piles of bones before disintegrating into dust.

"It is time to combine weapons!" Mera shouted. The other Rangers came up to her and nodded in agreement. Arachne looked up to see the Olympian Crossbow pointed at her.

"Time for this spider to swing out of here!" she shouted as she began to run away. The Rangers aimed the Olympian Crossbow in her chosen direction. Mera and Jay had swapped their usual places so that Mera was now firing. She infused her power into the Lightning Sword.

"Olympic Battalion Barrage!" Mera shouted as she pulled the trigger. "Fire!" The sword morphed into multiple spears, with each one hitting its mark. Arachne had just been turned into the world's largest pincushion. She screamed in agony as she crumpled to the ground before exploding in a flash of fire and ash.

As the Rangers began to celebrate, there was a flash of blue light as Arachne's remains were surrounded in blue flame. The pieces recombined back into Arachne before she grew to the size of a skyscraper.

"This spider isn't so itsy bitsy anymore!" Jay shouted into his morpher. "We need the Zords!"

"On their way," Hermes said before pressing some buttons on the mosaic computer. The Rangers looked up to see their Zords charging towards them. They jumped into the cockpit and placed their Olympian Gems into the slots.

"Prepare to change to Warrior Mode!" Jay ordered as he turned the dial to "WARRIOR MODE". The other Rangers quickly followed suit.

"Zords, combine!" Jay shouted as the Zords began to twist and turn.

The Bull Zord was the first to change, as the head came off, the body split apart and the legs flipped around 180ᣞ and the front and back legs combined.

The Horse Zord was next, as its head went into a chest cavity while the front and back legs combined together and connected to the Bull Zord legs, forming a complete waist, legs and feet.

The Eagle Zord was next. As its wings clipped off together in one long arc-shaped piece and its legs slid into its body before it connected to the Horse Zord, it was now forming the entire body of the combination. The Eagle Zord head screeched and opened up its mouth to fit the other side of the Bull Zord's head into it, revealing a robotic face.

Next came the Owl Zord. As its head detached from the body and the body detached from the wings, the wings clipped onto the sides of the Eagle Zord and expanded, forming the arms.

Lastly was the Fish Zord. As the entire dorsal fin and tail came off, it popped open completely in half before coming onto the Eagle Zord's body as a chestplate and combining together again. The tail folded into a plume that went onto the Eagle Zord's head to complete the helmet look. The horns from the Bull Zord head attached together and became a straight point before combining with the dorsal fin to create a large spear that went into the left hand. The Owl Zord body lengthened itself a bit before the head slid into a hole in the center, finishing the shield, which went on the right arm.

"Olympian Megazord: Warrior Mode ready!" all five Rangers shouted as they all joined together in a single cockpit. Jay was in the front with Nate diagonally to his right, Victor diagonally on his left, Valerie diagonally behind Nate and Mera diagonally behind Victor.

Mera looked at her hand in surprise as an orange gem appeared in her hand and began to glow.

"Due to your new-found wisdom, you have connected to the Orange Olympian Gems and gained the power of Hestia's Donkey Zord!" Hermes announced. "Place the Gem in the left slot and summon it. It will combine with your Megazord and give it more power!"

"Very well," Mera said as she replaced one of her gems with the orange one. "Summoning Donkey Zord!"

The Orange Donkey Zord ran into the battle and attacked Arachne with its large scissor-like ears. After a few strikes, it ran back over to the Olympina Megazord: Warrior Mode, waiting.

"Donkey Zord combine!" Mera ordered. The right arm of the Olympian Megazord came off and the Donkey Zord, with its legs folded, replaced it. The ears clapped together to show off how sharp they were.

"Olympian Megazord: Warrior Mode with Donkey Power!" the Rangers announced.

"Whatever!" Arachne said as she began to spin her web again. She shot out a large single strand of webbing. Mera flicked a switch on her control panel and the Donkey Zord ears sliced straight through the strand. Arachne had a look of fear on her face as the Rangers moved in for the final blow.

"Donkey Final Scissor Slash!" the Rangers announced before the Megazord did a giant slash with the two ear-blades of the donkey. Arachne shrieked as she exploded in a cloud of ash for a second time. The Rangers cheered before removing their helmets.

"There's nothing we cannot do when we work together as teammates and friends!" Mera said as she raised her hand to high-five Jay.

"You know it!" Jay said as he matched her high hand with his own before high fiving that turned into a friendly hug.

The two separated and turned to the other Rangers.

"Let's head back to base," Jay said.


"'This spider isn't so itsy bitsy anymore'?" Nate asked as the Rangers walked through the Doors. "Really?"

"I was working with what I had," Jay said. "It's not like these jokes come out of nowhere."

"As informative as this conversation has been, are you not forgetting something?" Mera asked. "The test is coming up tomorrow!"

"Mind training instead of muscle training?" Nate groaned. "Do I have to?"

Valerie snuck up behind Nate and shoved him towards Mera,

"Get going!" she said. "Math waits for no man, woman or child!"

"Save me, Victor!" Nate yelled as Mera dragged him back to the study room. Victor just shrugged in response.

Jay sighed as he followed the two,

"Here we go again…" he muttered.

That's it for now. I do have Spring Break next week, so hopefully I can push out a chapter then.

Until next time, may the power protect you!